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Make Your Life Easy With Filters (Gmail Tutorial)

Written by Anurag Bhateja on May 2, 2009 – 7:43 pm -

In my last post I explained how to make the mail sorting easy with filters. Now its turn for the Gmail users. See, I do not personally suggest to use Gmail because of many drawbacks it has but still many of us just LOVE gmail. Anyway, unlike yahoo you can not make folders here (Phew!). You have labels for fulfilling the purpose but all the mails will remain in your inbox. Follow the steps and make the filters work for you.

1. Login to your Gmail account.
2. Click on link named “Filters”
3. Click on “Create new filter”
4. Fill the form. Like if you want to filter the mail from my ID i.e. anuragbhateja@gmail.com you can add it to filter from section and the mails will be filtered. In the next step you can choose to add a label to it and it will be done.

5. Now click on next step. See the illustration for the explanation of the check boxes. The best part of Gmail filters is that the filters will be applied to already delivered mails also. You can choose to skip the inbox, mark mail as read, star it, apply some label, forward it to another email, delete it or never send to spam or more than one also.

6. Click on “Create filter”.

You are done. In just 6 steps you will now be relived from the stress of sorting out the mails. Enjoy

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E-mail backup — Using Mail Forward And Gmail

Written by Anurag Bhateja on April 27, 2009 – 9:11 am -

In my last post on e-mail backups I explained the steps for creating e-mail bakups using server based mail forward system and filters in yahoo mail. Some of my readers have asked me if the same is possible in Gmail or not.

We can forward the mails to Gmail account and fortunately filters are also available in Gmail but you can not sort them in folders in Gmail as there is no option of folders in Gmail. You can only label them while creating filters. The following steps will help you in creating forwards in Cpanel and creating label based filters in Gmail.

I again recommend to create a new mail ID in gmail for backup system to avid any mess in your primary Gmail account.

First step to make the server mail account to forward a copy of your mail to specific mail ID, login into your control panel. On assuming you are using the most popular cpanel for managing your hosting account, please follow the following steps.
1. Go to cpanel and login.
2. Find “Forwarders” under Mail and click on it.

3. Click on “Add Forwarder”. If there are no forwarders added, you see the line “There are no forwarders configured for the current domain.”

4. Now choose the mail address which you want to backup and write the mail ID on which you want the backup.

5. Click on “Add Forwarder”.’

Now you may close the cpanel and move to the Gmail account.

1. Click on the “Settings” button in top right.
2. Now Click on filters.

3. Click on “Create a new filter”.

4. Now on “To:” section write the mail ID from which backup mails are coming and click on next step.

5. In the next step check “Apply the label” option and from drop down select a label. If a label is not created yet click on “New Label” in drop down. It will ask you for the name you want to give.

6. Click on “Create Filter”